The Crimson Rooms is set in post World War I London, England in the year 1924. Evelyn Gifford is haunted by the death of her cherished brother James, who died in the Great War. Evelyn is stunned when a young woman named Meredith and her 6 year old son Edmund show up on the families doorstep. Meredith who is a nurse, claims that Edmund , conceived in a battlefield hospital, is the son of her brother James. The family take Meredith and Edmund in but they are still grief stricken from James death as well as the recent death of Evelyn's father.
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A heady mix of early Renaissance vitality, the progressive mood of mid-19th-century England, and literary subjects, here are 30 works from John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn de Morgan, and more. Each illustration awaits the touch of life from paintbrush, pencil, marker, or fine crayon. Dover Original.
Brideshead Revisited is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself". This is achieved by an examination of the Catholic aristocratic Marchmain family, as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder.
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